Dr Peter Maw

Lecturer in 18th Century History

Biography

I completed my undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Manchester, before being awarded a one-year ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2005-6. In 2007, I was appointed to a three-year English Heritage Research Fellowship at Manchester Metropolitan University as part of Manchesters bid to attain a World Heritage Site inscription. I joined the University of Leeds in September 2013, following three years at Northumbria University.

Research

My research concerns the northern English textile regions in the long eighteenth century, especially in terms of industry, trade, and transport. My doctoral and initial post-doctoral research focused on Yorkshire and Lancashires textile export trade to North America from 1750-1825 and, more recently, I have worked on the industrial and urban impacts of Manchesters canal network before 1850. I am currently working on a project that seeks to identify and analyse all cotton-spinning mills built in England and Wales between 1770 and 1840 and on a project that looks at settlement of American and European merchants in Manchester and Leeds from the late eighteenth century.

Publications:

Transport and the industrial city: Manchester and the Canal Age, 1750-1850 (Manchester University Press, 2013).

Manchester: Canals and the development of the city during the industrial revolution in T. Tvedt and T. Oestigaard (eds.) A History of Water, Series 3, Vol. 1. From Jericho to Cities in the Seas: A History of Urbanization and Water Systems (London: I.B. Taurus, 2014), pp. 431-49.